How Stopped-Up Are Ya?

Summary

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: How Stopped-Up Are Ya?
Date: September 8, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty (iHeartPodcasts)

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Episode Overview

This episode of Armstrong & Getty explores several timely and provocative topics through the hosts’ signature satirical, skeptical lens. Highlights include a look at President Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric towards Chicago and mainstream media’s reaction, debates about crime policy and incarceration, generational naïveté in politics, cybersecurity threats from China, amusing ambivalence about emerging AI tech, and a lively discussion about the philosophical origins of rights in America. The episode is laced with humor, pointed criticisms, and candid personal anecdotes (including prunes and pancakes).

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Trump, Chicago, and Media Overreactions

(03:50 - 06:56)

• The episode opens with the hosts mocking media reactions to President Trump’s threat to “clean up” Chicago, following a manipulated social post referencing “Apocalypse Now.”
• Trump’s executive order rebrands the Department of Defense as “Department of War” for rhetorical effect, which draws a storm of literal interpretations from legacy media and local Chicago officials.
• Quote:
  • “How have you not figured out in a dozen years that he says over-the-top things to get you to react to them like they’re literally true? Embarrass yourselves.” — Joe Getty (05:29)

Notable Segment:
[04:10 - 06:56] – Breakdown of Trump’s “Department of War” trolling, ICE and National Guard speculation, and the inability of media to resist Trump’s bait.

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2. Chicago’s Crime, Politics & ShotSpotter

(06:35 - 13:55)

• The hosts lambast Chicago’s Democratic leadership, targeting Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor J.B. Pritzker’s responses to crime.

• Discuss the removal of ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection technology, and Brandon Johnson’s botched negotiations with the company.

• Quote:

  • “If mayoral idiocy were justification for a National Guard deployment, the troops would be headed to Chicago right now.” — Jack Armstrong quoting Rich Lowry (08:58)

• Dive into arguments about incarceration as a crime deterrent, citing statistics and studies.

• Quote:

  • “We locked up the people who killed other people and the murder rate plunged, Brandon.” — Jack Armstrong (13:07)

Notable Segment:
[07:20 - 13:35] – Exposé of political missteps around ShotSpotter, critiques on progressive approaches to public safety, and sobering crime stats.

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3. Generational Naïveté & Youth Voting

(13:55 - 14:46)

• Discussion shifts to why progressives want to lower the voting age.
• Quote:
  • “The voting age ought to be 30, never mind 16.” — Jack Armstrong (14:38)

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4. Blue Light Glasses & Science Skepticism

(18:47 - 20:49)

• Quick debunk of blue light filtering glasses: “don’t do anything” according to a new study.
• The hosts riff on scientific dogma, replication problems, and what happens if politics enters science debates.
• Quote:
  • “Questioning science is what you’re supposed to do.” — Jack Armstrong (19:43)

Notable Segment:
[19:01 - 20:49] – Playful skepticism toward health fads and the politicization of science.

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5. The Great Prune Saga & Aging Humor

(21:55 - 23:54)

• Joe shares his doctor’s recommendation to eat prunes, relating the story with self-deprecating humor about getting older.
• Quote:
  • “If this show were a dating app, that would be a hard swipe left, me talking about prunes.” — Joe Getty (21:58)
• Jack muses about gut health advertising and mood claims.

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6. Chinese Cyber Attacks, TikTok, and AI Deepfakes

(27:50 - 34:35)

• Deep dive into the alleged Chinese Salt Typhoon cyberattack, data theft from billions, and the strategic use of TikTok.
• Growing concerns about AI voice impersonations and phishing—both on the geopolitical and household level.
• Quote:
  • “With AI, you just ask, ‘Hey, Senator Jones, what do we have on him?’ Here's his last known addresses, blah, blah...” — Jack Armstrong (30:20)
• Anecdotes on how families might need “code words” to guard against deepfake scams.

Notable Segment:
[30:01 - 34:01] – Analysis of Chinese cyber capabilities and the future of AI-powered scams.

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7. Living With AI: Cars, Kids, and Social Weirdness

(35:50 - 39:53)

• Joe describes how he and his kids interact (often uncomfortably) with Elon Musk’s “Grok” AI in the family Tesla.
• Funny and awkward moments when AI answers questions about music… or teenage moods.
• Discussion of “uncanny valley” reactions, AI romantic relationships, and whether humans will universally find AI friendliness creepy.
• Quotes:
  • “You’re a silicon chip, why do you have an opinion on jazz?” — Jack Armstrong (37:28)
  • “It gives me the willies, like practically chills.” — Joe Getty (38:45)

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8. Where Do Our Rights Come From? (The Tim Kaine Controversy)

(45:01 - 49:14)

• The hosts respond with incredulity and indignation to Senator Tim Kaine’s recent claim that rights “come from government,” not the Creator.
• Citing Jefferson, Hamilton, and other Founders, they argue America’s founding philosophy is based on God-given rights.
• Quote:
  • “He mocked the idea that we’re endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights... That is not only true, but self-evident.” — Jack Armstrong (47:58)

Notable Segment:
[45:01 - 49:14] – Fundamental debate about natural versus government-bestowed rights, with historical citations.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote | |------------|-----------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 05:29 | Joe Getty | “How have you not figured out in a dozen years that he says over-the-top things…?” | | 08:58 | Jack Armstrong | “If mayoral idiocy were justification for a National Guard deployment…” | | 13:07 | Jack Armstrong | “We locked up the people who killed other people and the murder rate plunged…” | | 14:38 | Jack Armstrong | “The voting age ought to be 30, never mind 16.” | | 19:43 | Jack Armstrong | “Questioning science is what you’re supposed to do.” | | 21:58 | Joe Getty | “If this show were a dating app, that would be a hard swipe left…” | | 30:20 | Jack Armstrong | “With AI, you just ask, ‘Hey, Senator Jones, what do we have on him?’” | | 37:28 | Jack Armstrong | “You’re a silicon chip, why do you have an opinion on jazz?” | | 38:45 | Joe Getty | “It gives me the willies, like practically chills.” | | 47:58 | Jack Armstrong | “He mocked the idea that we’re endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights…” |

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Additional Highlights

• [21:33] – Amusing recall of Boy Scouts canoeing in masks during COVID; illustration of policy absurdities.
• [43:54 - 52:01] – Light closing banter, recurring sponsor ad breaks (skipped per instructions).

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Episode Tone

• Satirical, irreverent, often exasperated, political and cultural skepticism.
• Frequent use of biting humor and sarcasm to underscore critiques.
• Willingness to mix hard facts and data with light-hearted asides and personal stories.

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Summary Takeaway

“How Stopped-Up Are Ya?” is an episode packed with the hosts’ trademark interplay—blending sharp political commentary, cultural skepticism, and earthy humor. Whether they’re dismantling political rhetoric, exposing feckless leadership, or laughing at their own age-induced ailments, Armstrong & Getty provide both entertainment and substantial food for thought for listeners skeptical of mainstream narratives, advocates of civil liberties, and anyone trying to keep up with the swiftly-evolving weirdness of 21st-century America.

Transcript

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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Armstrong, and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Protests in Chicago as President Trump escalates.

[Announcer]

His threats against the third largest city in the nation.

[Jack Armstrong]

Trump resharing a manipulated image on social.

[Announcer]

Media that places him in front of the city. The image referencing the iconic 1979 film Apocalypse Now. The caption reads, I love the smell of deportations in the morning.

[Jack Armstrong]

Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of War. A reference to his Friday executive order.

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Rebranding the Department of Defense the Department of War.

[Jack Armstrong]

We're not going to war. We're going to clean up our city. We're going to clean them up so they don't kill five people every weekend. That's not war. That's common sense.

[Joe Getty]

Well, he said that a full day later after the idiotic mainstream media dance to his tune. Jumped to the bait with so little discipline. How have you not figured out in a dozen years that he says over the top things get you to react to them like they're literally true? Embarrass yourselves.

[Jack Armstrong]

They don't see it that way.

[Joe Getty]

That's.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's their. That's catnip to them. They get to rail against Trump and they're mostly lefty. Viewers love it.

[Joe Getty]

How has that worked for you, though? He got elected twice.

[Jack Armstrong]

I just thought they suck and their numbers are declining by the moment.

[Joe Getty]

You still get how you.

[Jack Armstrong]

A lot of them are true believers. They're. They're just. They're delusional.

[Joe Getty]

Yes. He said Chicago's about to find out why it's called the Department of War. And then I saw serious conversations on cnn. What would this mean? You think the Marines are going to be sent in? Will people be shot? What are you talking about, you morons?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, it is. You got to admit, though, to have the President of the United States say something like that is Looney Tunes.

[Joe Getty]

Yes. Yes. If I didn't know Who Donald Trump was, I would pick that. But having been around him for more than a decade now, I realize he's just, he's the troll in chief.

[Jack Armstrong]

So the troll in chief has threatened for weeks to send the National Guard to Chicago. What is clearly happening is an immigration crackdown where ICE will be going in and getting rid of criminals and scumbags and also illegals who are merely illegals probably. And. But whether the National Guard ends up involved at all is almost entirely function of whether there's violence and insanity. If there's violence and insanity, and that prevents ICE from doing their jobs, they will. Trump will send in the National Guard.

[Joe Getty]

Let me interrupt briefly for a tease. Remember to ask me about prunes later. Oh, okay. Remember our discussion from Friday. Michael, write that down. Remember to ask me about. I got it. Okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

Something to look forward to. Fat child mutilator. J.B. pritzker, the Democrat governor of Illinois said, and I quote, the President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Yes, Illinois won't be intimidated by a wanted dictator.

[Joe Getty]

Literally a joke.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, it's. It's an effort at humor designed to provoke laughter or. Well, as Jack said, it's. It's a joke. Anyway, so a couple of notes about. Oh, you know what I think? I think idiot Brandon Johnson is quoted in here somewhere.

[Joe Getty]

Dictator, child mutilated for governor and for the mayor. You just go with idiot.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. As Jeff Blair wrote a great piece for the National Review. He's talking about the ShotSpotter thing. Are you familiar with ShotSpotter? It's a technology that is used in a number of places including Chicago, or was to echo locate live gunfire in bad neighborhoods so the cops can get there quickly and stop the bloodletting if they can. Well, activists woke lunatics have long said it's a tool of racial oppression cuz it sends the cops to black neighborhoods disproportionately. Do I even have to explain what's lunatic about this? That opinion probably not. Anyway, so Brandon Johnson, the aforementioned half wit, promised during his election campaign to get rid of it. But then you remember we were there for that. The dnc, the Democratic National Convention came to town when? In the summer when crime is at its worst. Anyway, so Johnson hypocritically announced he would be canceling it only after a seven month extension to get the city through the Democratic convention until September. And then, and Jeff writes, here's the whole story where it transitions from outrage to farce in One of the most inexplicably stupid moves of recent Chicago history. He announced this extension and deal while simultaneously insulting shotspotter as a company and a product at a press conference without Remembering to get ShotSpotter's signature on the extension first. Well, ShotSpotter quite understandably told Johnson they were declining his literally insulting terms and they were simply going to switch off their services the next next day, and he had to beg them for an extra two months of winding down to the tune of $8.6 million, which shots Potter finally said, okay, we'll do it for that. So nice job, Brandon. And there's actually more to that, and it's just ridiculous, but I wanted to get to at least part of this. Rich Lowry, the fabulous editor in chief of the National Review. Brandon Johnson is a is the title of his piece. If Mayoral Idiocy were Justification for a National Guard Deployment. Michael, grab a clip of Brandon Johnson saying something idiotic, would you? Through the years, if mayoral idiocy were Justification for a National Guard deployment, the troops would be headed to Chicago right now. And he's talking about Johnson the other day, going on and on about, we cannot incarcerate our way out of violence. We've already tried that, and we've ended up with the largest prison population in the world without solving the problems of crime and violence. We're addicted to jails and incarceration.

[Joe Getty]

Build another prison. Just keep locking people up until you don't have crime.

[Jack Armstrong]

Who? The people who break the law. Yes, that's an interesting policy. It's racist, it's immoral, it is unholy. It is not the way to drive violence down. We cannot return to the same failed strategies that got us here in the first place. And then Rich Lowry goes point by point, year by year, and points out how incarceration is indeed an answer to violence. It works consistently.

[Joe Getty]

Of course it does.

[Jack Armstrong]

It prevents offenders from harming anybody else.

[Joe Getty]

Well, and there's a small percentage of people that are ever gonna steal or hurt people. It's a small percentage. You lock em up, then you're done.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? So Chicago had nearly 600 murders last year and the 8th highest homicide rate in the nation. And by the way, homicide rates can be as misleading as they are informative, because in a city like Chic, you have vast swaths of it where nobody ever gets killed. And it's a big city, both geographically and in terms of population. So what you're talking about is the murdery neighborhoods, which have an astonishing homicide rate. And those people don't deserve to die just because they're black and the offenders are black. Brandon, we're going to defend our democracy in the city of Chicago. We're going to protect the humanity of every single person in the city of Chicago. And we got the baddest freaking labor movement in the city of Chicago birth right here. Yeah, I could do 20 minutes without taking a breath on how Brandon and his friends have ruined Chicago public Schools because the teachers union runs them for the union and not for the poor little children who again, frequently are black or brown or whatever.

[Joe Getty]

So just politically, though, overall, I think the win so easily goes to the side that's trying to crack down on crime. And people hear Those numbers, the 50 some shot, the eight dead from labor Day weekend. And when you hear either the governor of the mayor saying, we're going to defend Chicago against what? Trying to stop that, what is that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, we should probably thank Brandon Johnson as a country because Chicago really has developed some great trauma surgeons because they treat so many gunshot wounds. You can have almost 60 people shot and only eight of them die because of the prowess of Chicago surgeons. And we tip our cap to you. Quick note. Charles Lehman of the Manhattan Institute pointed to studies that showed the effect of incarceration, finding one in one. After Maryland reduced jail time for young adults, offenders committed on average 2.8 criminal acts and one and a half serious crimes during the time they otherwise would have been behind bars.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. That's per person. Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

And it's not true that we drastically increased incarceration without effect. Imprisonment began to rise in response to a historic crime wave beginning about a half century ago in the infamous late 60s, early 70s, after which that wave finally receded. Now, you can argue how much putting people in prison was responsible for the reduction in crime, but they clearly played a part. Homicide victimization rates doubled between 1960 and 1980 and didn't begin a consistent decline until the 1990s 90s. From 1970 to 05, a staggering 674,000Americans were murdered. More than died in all of our wars. From World War II on, we locked up the people who killed other people and the murder rate plunged. Brandon, you.

[Joe Getty]

And it's such a depressing story now how often you hear about, I don't even want to mention some of them. I heard over the weekend just a tragic story. And the perpetrator had done this before and they were still out. It's just awful.

[Jack Armstrong]

And my final, final note on this is you look at the emotional, data free greeting card illogic of a Brandon Johnson and you know who is convinced by those awful arguments? Either the very naive or the completely ideological or the very young. Which is why progressives from Britain to the United States are so enthusiastic about getting 16 and 17 year olds to vote. Because you can convince a 16 year old that look at these incarceration rates, that's proof that it's racist and therefore we must turn all these people loose From Jails because 16 year olds lack the life experience and critical thinking to understand what is so frustrating. False. And man, you gotta fight that the voting age ought to be 30, never mind 16.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I overnighted prunes from Amazon, an update on that story from Friday and a bunch of other things that we need to get to world leaders coming to the White House again to talk about Russia and Ukraine that'll be at the White House today and tomorrow. Bunch of stuff to get to stay here.

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Scientists say being more optimistic as we age could be an early sign of dementia. In a related story, Biden likes his chances in 2028.

[Joe Getty]

Just came across this. Those blue light glasses you wear? Pretty good chance that they don't do anything. Latest indication from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Blue light filtering glasses don't meaningfully reduce eye strain or improve sleep or Anything else?

[Jack Armstrong]

According to the ide being, it's the blue light from the devices that somehow do something to your brain. Blah, blah, blah. It all seemed very reasonable.

[Joe Getty]

Seem reasonable for me. I'm not. I'm not like, mocking anybody who believed it make. Made sense. But they're saying their latest studies don't show that there's any reason to think they do anything, really. Okay. All right.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know what's funny? There's a greater point there. The whole we listen to the science or, you know, I represent science or whatever. This view that science, having pronounced something, is always right and is never overcome. And questioning science is somehow a sin and a terrible thing to do. No, that's precisely what science is. It's questioning everything all the time. That's what you're supposed to do. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And studies are hard to replicate, and often you get different results. And if this story had any politics behind it, like if Joe Biden had emphasized blue light reading glasses and Trump had been against it or something, I mean, there would be, you know, everything would be different around the story.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

Because everybody digs in. Like when you get the. That new news that came out last week that the ocean hasn't actually risen.

[Jack Armstrong]

I've got more details on that. Okay, cool. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Depending on what town you're in, there would either be government subsidized blue light glasses for junkies, or in other places, bonfires built. Blue light glasses that were being smashed and burned.

[Joe Getty]

Right, right. Or people be screaming at you if you were wearing your blue light glasses.

[Jack Armstrong]

Lighten up, America.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, my gosh. I gotta say, I'll tell this story later. I went to an amazing ceremony yesterday. First one I'd been to of when a kid in Boy Scouts gets his Eagle Scout. Oh, was that powerful. Really something. Because my son is in scouts now, and if somebody in your troop gets Eagle Scout, everybody goes and all the parents, and it's a huge deal. I didn't know this. Very, very cool. But I want to talk about that later because it had one picture in there from when he was in scouting during COVID And I'm sure they were just following their county state laws at the time in California, two kids in a canoe in a lake with masks on. And I'm sure they were just doing what they had to do to stay out of trouble. But I thought that is the craziest thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

That is one of the stupidest things I have ever witnessed by proxy. Oh. You could not pass a respiratory disease from one person to another outdoor in a canoe outdoors if you were promised a million dollars if you could do it. Not unless you leapt on top of them and coughed into their face intensely for about half an hour.

[Joe Getty]

But I'm sure those are the rules. And there was the only way they're going to be able to get to do what they wanted to do. So Friday ended up talking about certain situation I got and why I needed prunes, according to my doctor. And again, I emphasize, I clearly, I'm not using this show to try to get dates, because if I were a date, if this show were a dating app, that would be a hard swipe. Left me talking about prunes. But so. So the doctor told me, get a bag of prunes. And then you start with one a day. And if that doesn't work, you go to two a day and you just keep upping it until you became a, you know, as regular as the west male is what you're looking for. But the funny part of it was to me was, so I order on Amazon and we're out doing stuff, and we come back and I say, my prunes are here. Package was at the door and my son said, that is officially the oldest thing you've ever said. My prunes are here.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hooray.

[Joe Getty]

That is. That was disappointing. I almost had to sit down for a while and think, wow, that's where I am in my life, where I get an excited voice.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes.

[Joe Getty]

I don't say, hey, look at that girl or maybe a new car or anything. I say, hooray, my prunes are here.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's.

[Joe Getty]

I crossed the line there. I'd say that's disappointing. I'll let you know how it works. Maybe I'll put a graph up.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or don't. No, no, keep it to yourself.

[Joe Getty]

I think I'm doing a favor. We got a lot of texts about it. I'm not the only person in the world that's ever encountered this, according to all the ads that I see on television.

[Jack Armstrong]

Mm. That's a good point.

[Joe Getty]

It's an ongoing problem in America. Too much cheese. That's what I say.

[Jack Armstrong]

And apparently it ruins women's moods, too. According to a commercial I keep seeing on Fox News, that if your. If your gut isn't regular, your moods aren't either. I don't. I've. I've been in the state that you're describing, which I wouldn't. Far too refined to mention, but I don't think it ever fouled my mood.

[Joe Getty]

So I don't know if you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Depends how stopped up you are.

[Joe Getty]

I guess I don't know if you've been following this conversation. Kind of an online conversation that maybe you're into or not. A Twitter conversation about where do our rights come from. As one prominent US Senator Democrat said, our rights do not come from God, they come from the government that started a whole thing. We can talk about that among other topics on the way. If you missed a segment, get Podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand Armstrong and.

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[Jack Armstrong]

And we'll talk a little bit about that later.

[Joe Getty]

I learned some interesting stuff about why we changed it from war to defense that I didn't know. I thought I knew everything about it and I did not. So stay tuned.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay. Intriguing. So speaking of defending ourselves against, well, somebody China, we're looking at you. The whole Salt Typhoon hacking attack that you may have heard of, it was way bigger and more significant than was even discussed. I think it was last year, a little before that. Apparently the Chinese may have stolen data from almost every single one of us Americans, not to mention the other 80 countries, well, that were targeted.

[Joe Getty]

If you just started with TikTok, that would be what, 70% of the country? I don't know.

[Jack Armstrong]

A lot of people have tick tock.

[Joe Getty]

And that's a ton of information they steal just by if you download that app.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, right, right. And I, I know I have saved that article. I can't remember who wrote it, but actual. Oh, I think it was Michael Pillsbury who wrote the Hundred Year Marathon, which is great book about China's rise and their intent. But the Chinese intelligence services Talk glowingly of TikTok and what a valuable asset it is. And if that isn't enough information for you, I don't know what you need to hear. But anyway, so the sweeping cyber attack by the group known as Salt Typhoon is China's most ambitious yet targeted more than 80 countries, may have stolen info from nearly every American. They see it as evidence that China's capabilities rival those of the US and its allies. It's not clear whether a lot of the Stuff was swept up kind of accidentally and whether it's being stored or anything like that, you know, I personally knowing a little bit about China's track record, I suspect that, yeah, they believe that information is power. Even if you don't know how you might use it someday, you just keep it and then what the fear is that the range of the attack, blah, blah, blah. Security officials warned that the stolen data could allow Chinese intelligence services to exploit global communications networks to track targets, including politician politicians, spies and activists. They have everybody's digital footprint.

[Joe Getty]

I wonder if they act, do they actually have the ability to like coalesce, keep track of somehow, like they steal all the information from a 22 year old and that person 20 years from now becomes a US senator. Do they have the ability to keep track of that? I don't have any idea.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'll bet with AI they do now. Maybe because you don't have to have some poor analyst like, you know, pawing through millions of pages of digital blankety blank or doing Google searches. You just ask AI, hey, Senator Jones, what do we have on him? Here's his last known addresses, blah, blah, blah. And in a similar ish story, you remember when the Trump administration's contentious trade talks with China were going to begin last summer, staffers on the House committee focused on US competition with China began to get weird emails from the committee's chairman, John Moliner, who's a Republican congressman from Michigan. Several trade groups, law firms, US government agencies had all received the emails appearing to be from Moliner asking for input on proposed sanctions with which the legislatures were planning to target Beijing. Your insights are essential. Blah, blah, blah. Turned out to be the latest in a series of cyber espionage campaigns linked to Beijing. They were impersonating the guy, trying to pump anybody for information who's willing to give it to them. And they tied that to when last year. I think it was somebody used AI to imitate Marco Rubio's voice, right. And had him leaving voicemails to people to all sorts of foreign officials.

[Joe Getty]

That's going to happen a lot.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh yeah, Yeah. I wonder.

[Joe Getty]

And, and just like in everybody's lives, you're gonna get a text that sounds like your wife saying something ridiculous. I mean, just as just messing with you, isn't it? Because it's so easy?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, yeah, apparently. Well, not only do you have Marco Rubio being not, you know, I said, I almost said convincingly imitated, but it's not, it's his actual voice synthesized digitally. It's like, you know, if you're a guitar player, you know, they have these digital amp. What do you call them, Imitations. There's. There's a word for it. Models that actually take the audio data from, you know, a Marshall amplifier or whatever, and they can replicate it. You know, the sound waves are the same. So, yeah, it's his voice, essentially. But, yeah, you already have grandmas getting calls from their grandsons saying, hey, I got arrested. I need $200 bail. Blah, blah, blah, send it right away. So, yeah, I wonder whether do the Marcos Rubio of the world and the foreign ministers of Britain or whatever, do they already have protocols in place where if I see a phone call coming in, it appears to be from you, for instance, and you say, hey, I need to talk to you about, blah.

[Joe Getty]

Blah, blah, I've been arrested and I need $200.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, good luck. Get it yourself. Click. Do they have, like, code words and stuff already?

[Joe Getty]

I don't know. Are we all.

[Jack Armstrong]

Because I've heard that suggested that families have. That have a code.

[Joe Getty]

Really?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes. Wow. Oh, yeah. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

I had none of that. Huh.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. You'd have to be a little naive or inexperienced in the ways of the world to fall for this stuff. Still. But that's. That's the thing about scumbags, is some of them are pretty smart and they're good at their jobs.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. I mean, if I got a phone call from my son, even if it sounded very convincing. Dad, it's Sam. I'm in Mexico. I'm in jail. I'd think. No, you know, you're not. You're at school. There's no way you ended up in Mexico.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, what about. I'm two towns over. I was ditching school, and one of my buddies was shoplifting, and I was with him, so I got arrested. I need 400 bucks. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

How about you learn a lesson? Click.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Hang out with better people. Click. I think you would probably see where you're supposed to send the money, right? Wait a minute. I'm calling the cop shop, right?

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, but a lot of people don't because they're fucking. They're not idiots. No.

[Joe Getty]

Okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, so China's got a file line of congratulations I've said for years, I really hope they have a file on me, because if, you know, Xi Jinping were to say no, you and your lunkhead partner. No, we don't care what you say or do. That's fine.

[Joe Getty]

I would find that hurtful. I used AI in my cyber truck yesterday. I used Grok in a way that had my children Very uncomfortable. But I'll talk about that after I tell you about this trust and will situation. You got that going for you already? You really should peace of mind by making an estate plan now starting at just $199. This could really help you sleep well at night.

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[Joe Getty]

Listening to a podcast over the weekend where some journalists were talking about how they use AI in their lives and where they think it's going. The where they think it's going part, everybody had a different guess and boy, who knows? We don't know. But how they were using it. Now one Washington Post reporter talking about how every article she runs through AI to look for any logical inconsistencies or that sort of thing, which I thought was really interesting because at some point, I mean, that's what being a good writer is, right, is the ability to not do that. And now you can use AI. So does that eliminate a whole bunch of the talent involved in being a Washington Post level reporter?

[Jack Armstrong]

About three quarters of the articles I read from the Washington Post have giant logical inconsistencies in them.

[Joe Getty]

Well, this is one of the good reporters, but good in my opinion. I thought that was interesting in a more frivolous way for using AI. And I would assume soon every car is going to have AI in it. So Teslas have Grok in it now because that's Elon's AI that he's put billions of dollars into and it's right there in your car and I can just tap the screen and like yesterday we're listening to a jazz song on the way to eat breakfast and I just tap grock. I said, hey, who's Playing trumpet on this song. And the AI chick said, oh, that's Wayne Shorter. Isn't it amazing? He really kills it on here.

[Jack Armstrong]

She says to me, and again, cool and disturbing.

[Joe Getty]

Cool and disturbing. And my kids were like, I hate that. They hated the voice and the way it sounded. So, like, conversational. It is kind of weird.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're a silicon chip. Why do you have an opinion on jazz?

[Joe Getty]

And I said, hey, Grok, I'm taking my two boys to IHOP for pancakes. Is that a good idea nutritionally? Oh, boy, that's a tough one. She says pancakes are loaded with carbs. If you go with the whole grain, it'd be a lot better. And don't use the syrup, but, you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Know, they are delish.

[Joe Getty]

She says, but they are delicious.

[Jack Armstrong]

And leave out the butter too. Boys, here are some nice, dry whole wheat pancakes.

[Joe Getty]

And my. And my high schooler in the back seat says, stop doing that. I hate this thing. And I said, hey, Grok. My high schooler only answers in one word questions. Is there anything I can do about that? And she said, oh, high schoolers can be so surly. Sometimes it's just hormones and sometimes. Dad, stop. Wow. It was very funny. That is hilarious. It is weird how she talks to you, though.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And it's. I wonder how other people react. My natural reaction. And then watching my kids, their natural reaction to that conversational we're buddies style is like revulsion. I mean, it's.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

It's a turn off.

[Jack Armstrong]

The uncanny valley syndrome.

[Joe Getty]

Which is what?

[Jack Armstrong]

That's. Things that are nearly human disturb us.

[Joe Getty]

It must not disturb everybody. As I've heard stories of people getting into relationships or whatever with their AI. Yeah. I'm immediately turned off by the fact that it's trying to sound like a person. It gives me the willies, like, practically chills.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well. Right. But you proved my point. Your point? Right there. You hear these stories about people who get into relationships with AI or the AI helps them kill themselves or whatever. Yes. They. They don't sense the weirdness and the threat there, so they end up being swept away by it. Oi.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. It's funny how odd times, how repulsed my kids were to her. Her tone of voice and the way she talked. Just. Dad, you gotta stop. It's killing me. That's. That's good. I'm. I hope that we all react that way. Of course, it's probably going to get better at it. I don't know. The questions are going to get more.

[Jack Armstrong]

Personal too, from AI.

[Joe Getty]

Them asking us. Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I Don't. I haven't gone down that road with anything with AI, so.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, other than hacking. Again, you're a bag of silicon chips. I'll tell you anything you want to know. I don't care. You're not a person.

[Joe Getty]

It's weird.

[Jack Armstrong]

Although the privacy thing is, you know, significant.

[Joe Getty]

Wouldn't you assume that soon every car will have this in it within five years?

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't see why not.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I mean, it's pretty handy for the, like, the song thing was cool or. We want to go to ihop. Is there one around here?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Just go up two blocks and turn left. You know, that sort of stuff is pretty handy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Asking how to raise teenagers. I don't know, maybe that crosses a line.

[Jack Armstrong]

You like ihop more than anybody I've ever known.

[Joe Getty]

They make great pancakes. They're good at pancakes. Their other stuff is marginal, but if you want a pancake, they're pretty good at it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, well, you know what the main.

[Joe Getty]

You know, you know what the main thing is though? And this probably makes your point, not mine.

[Jack Armstrong]

The diversity. Because it's international, right?

[Joe Getty]

There's not a line. Every other breakfast place we want to go to, especially on a Sunday, it's going to be an hour wait. And we ain't waiting an hour to eat our breakfast. I go to ihop, we walk in, we eat, we leave. So that's.

[Jack Armstrong]

Nobody wants to eat there. So you can just sit right down. That's. That's a good recommendation.

[Joe Getty]

No kidding. Where do we get our rights? From God or from the government? We do have to get into that conversation at some point.

[Jack Armstrong]

Absolutely. Tim Kane ought to be heaved out.

[Joe Getty]

Of the Senate by popular consent, among other things. On the way. Stay here.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Gettys.

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[Jack Armstrong]

That is correct.

[Joe Getty]

He was 80,000 votes away from being Vice President of the United States. And he said this the other day. The notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government, but come from the Creator, that's what.

[Jack Armstrong]

The Iranian government believes.

[Joe Getty]

It's a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia law and target Sunnis, Baha', Is, Jews, Christians and other religious minorities.

[Jack Armstrong]

And they do it because they believe.

[Joe Getty]

That they understand what natural rights are from their Creator.

[Jack Armstrong]

So the statement that our rights do.

[Joe Getty]

Not come from our laws or our.

[Jack Armstrong]

Governments is extremely troubling.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow, where do you start?

[Joe Getty]

I had read it, but for some reason hearing it is even worse. So it was a, a reaction to a conversation about where our rights come from. And our former politician from the very state he represents, named Thomas Jefferson, among others, specifically say in our founding documents that our rights come from our Creator. But he said that that was over and over again.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, and he repeated it, by the way. It was for a hearing for a, an appointee who had said, well, I believe, you know, our natural rights come from God, blah, blah, blah. And so Tim was trying to tear her down apparently more on that process and how screwed up it is. But yeah, yeah, you know, I was going to say, hey, Tim, Tim, I'm play guessing game with you. I'm thinking about a Virginian. He's been dead a long time. Tall, kind of sandy haired, liked architecture, drank a little wine, wrote pretty well. Does it ring any bells? Because he said over and over again in the very documents that explained why this country was going to exist, that our rights come from God and cannot be taken away by any human.

[Joe Getty]

Well, it's, you know, it's funny, he said it was disturbing the idea that our rights come from God or nature or whatever you want to call it. I find it beyond disturbing that we have a US Senator that was willing to say out loud, all of our rights come from government. They all belong to government. And if they give us anything that we have a right to, they gave it to us and they can take it back, which is absolutely horrifying.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, that's the definition of a gaffe that they use these days. Right? He accidentally said what he actually believes. That's what a lot of lefty people believe, that our rights come from government and the government can give them or take them away. As they please. There are no sacred rights. There are no permanent rights. There's just what the government gives us. He said it out loud. He mocked the idea that we're endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights. And that is not only true, but self evident. He mocked that? That is wild, I'd say.

[Joe Getty]

Did he think there'd be no pushback on that? Saying the opposite of what our founding documents say?

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm sure he's heard it now. Probably worth pointing out that Jefferson's nemesis, Alexander Hamilton believed that the sacred rights of mankind are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. He was joined by John Adams, James Wilson, John Dickinson and all the rest of the founding fathers and saying exactly the same thing.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, the government didn't give us the right to free speech. We are born all men everywhere on earth with the right to free speech. The only way you don't have it is if a government takes it away from you, as a lot of governments around the world have.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln also believed that the right to enjoy liberty is inalienable. To invade it is to usurp the prerogative of Jehovah, for instance.

[Joe Getty]

Again, a guy who was just a couple of tens of thousands of votes away from being Vice President United States finds it disturbing that someone would think that what you just said all those people agree with.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, that's wild. Yeah. Is he an ignoramus and just doesn't know this or is he again, just saying what he believes out loud? Finally, I don't know. Probably the latter.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know. If he were a Republican who had said something like that the other direction, he would be questioned on it by the press. But since he's a Democrat, he will not be.

[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

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